NORTH CAPE
Sandrine Rinaldi
2008 Appeared in the journal Sequences
Night Soul
A new musical genre, is possible? It has The Ball was of Scola, it's been many moons, and since that adaptations of Broadway without much interest or high art as Chicago or Mamma Mia! Apart Moulin Rouge Australia, it must turn to France from left field to make us dance neurons.
Best waltzes are shortest. Northern Cape this logic applies in 59 minutes although dense and danced. The device could not have taken much longer, in fact: the film follows a party of the end of the world - Britain, to be precise - and we leave before returning home. A comedy chtimi earth, it does not Welcome to the Sticks : Sandrine Rinaldi, known for his criticism appeared under the pseudonym of Camille Nevers for Cahiers du Cinema, La Lettre du Cinema, and some chronic radio France Culture, delivers a surprising way film, the hermetic good boy, terribly engaging and often very funny.
second film after the acclaimed Hoax or history portraits in 2005, North Cape is a tribute to Northern Soul, Motown way black music played by Caucasians in northern Europe as popularized in the Commitments Alan Parker. In a tiny ballroom, young people neither beautiful nor ugly, which all seem to be friends, sway their hips to the sound of tubes tirelessly Betty Everett, JJ Barnes, The Shalimar, Marva Josie, Dena Barnes, The Metros, The Incredibles, Bobbie Smith, Sam Fletcher, Al Williams and other contagious melodies known. The evening is an opportunity to share some frivolous conversations, flirting and somehow set the counter to zero office.
While the soundtrack connects the songs in full and without pause, the camera browses some discussion forced speech delivered in a staccato tone shifted, creating absurd poetry and light, which is difficult to draw meaning from the next room before the guests will gather on the dance floor, the time just as deliberately bad choreography, courtesy of the Catalan choreographer Isabelle.
North Cape is entirely a matter of contrast, heat pieces decorated in hideous refreshments parish closed a crowded movie characters lived strictly satellites disappearing behind other extras once their replicas balanced. The dialogues, aphorisms mixture of networking, platitudes and words sunk songs translated literally out of context ("There is no mountain high enough, no river deep enough"), struggling to establish itself beyond the omnipresent music, the only real social glue behind which the characters seem to coexist .
From the American musical, Rinaldi has held dances, sometimes broken in synchronized movements, often chaotic, reduced to their function expression on the playground of a convention timeless, that the rut organized and willing to Young adults more likely to stretch their legs as the heart.
Critics dared reconciliations between North Cape and Mods, one of the newest films Serge Bozon, in which young people lived their uncertainties to the sound of a noisy garage rock, it also notes the affinities between the method and Rinaldi that of Eugene Green, especially in the living world or Le Pont des Arts , social criticism muted. In comparison, the cosmogony that offers the filmmaker is in turn sealed to our real random and disorderly, existing only for the installation, the pace or reply designed to supply not just any story, but a mechanical recreation, living a kind of semiology and flattening of a phenomenon that would almost fairground. This preposterous proposal
and thorough that we can not switch into a state of waking dream, not least with its irresistible wind of nostalgia. For North Cape able to fix images in zero time of nocturnal pleasures, that of partying past and future, peopled with familiar faces and new flames fed by the insatiable still hope to bring forth again the germ of recklessness and excitement of the transient conquests, one that will push us even to attend raising the least inviting, claustrophobic places and events gentes.
In this, Rinaldi succeeds quite the challenge: pick up the audience in celebration of which he was not invited and open to foreigners that he will not have time to know before returning to reality once the record will have you, glad to have found the early morning sun and the memory of its hackneyed derail the most memorable and have made full of timeless tunes that could feed many binges ahead .
© 2009 Charles-Stéphane Roy
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